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SHEEP IN THE BASHFUL STATE. 
Chance for Investment. 
As to the future of sheep husbandry 
in Vermont, it is my opinion that at no 
time, nor in any country, lias there been 
a better chance to engage in sheep busi¬ 
ness than the present. I can buy all the 
first-class sheep land wanted at from $15 
to $25 per acre, with buildings mostly 
and if properly conducted just for a 
bread-and-butter sheep, wool and mut¬ 
ton only, a big return could be made 
on the investment. I would like to in¬ 
terest some capital in such an enter¬ 
prise, and would undertake the man¬ 
agement as against the investment. The 
plan I would proceed on would be to 
fence thoroughly with a dog-proof fence, 
buying convenient and adaptable places, 
only about what two men could care 
for. Two men and a pair of horses 
should be kept busy all the time, rais¬ 
ing all the hay of the proper kind and 
grain, and make the plants about con¬ 
form to this size; scatter these little 
sheep farms about, and increase them 
as the business grew. There is no 
more natural sheep country on earth 
than Vermont. We are shipping stud 
sheep to Australia, Africa, South 
America, as well as all over this coun¬ 
try, and they all continue to come to 
Vermont for seed. We are near the 
markets on both wool and mutton, and 
there is no reason why big returns could 
not be made on an investment of $200,- 
000 to $400,000. It would take about 
four years to get such a plant or series 
of plants to making returns of much 
account. I am confident that after that 
much time it would clean up at least 
15 per cent on the investment. 
C. A. CHAPMAN. 
THE RUR-AIw NEW-YORKER 
is arrested at once. I fed some to-day 
that I bought a month ago. Shorts are 
cooling, and do not mat down solid, 
and there are air spaces intersected all 
through. The shorts absorb the mois¬ 
ture, and hold it, or give it off. Of 
course if kept a long time, it becomes 
dried meat, but the hens eat it just the 
same, and get all of the original virtue. 
The quantity of shorts to use depends 
on the quantity of meat, and length of 
time to keep. Any man with gumption 
enough to keep poultry, can plan the 
minor details out to suit himself. Of 
course none of the shorts need be 
wasted. Those who feed wet mash can 
rake out most of the meat, and feed the 
shorts and small particles of meat in the 
wet mash. A man in our city cuts 
large quantities of green bone and sells 
it. He told me that he was going to 
give it up, as it spoilt, and his cus¬ 
tomers bought such small quantities. I 
told him of my method, and he has told 
his customers, and all get good results. 
Plymouth Co., Mass. l. h. shaw. 
February 20, 
WOULDN’T IT BE FOLLY TO SAY 
1909 
NITED 
STATEI 
CREAM 
HOW TO UTILIZE CORN COBS. 
Here is a problem : Given a herd of 
cows for milk, with all grain to buy, and 
hay chiefly Timothy and a little Red-top, 
hut not much clover. The proposition is 
to plant 10 acres corn and buy a mill to 
grind corn and cob. The horses probably 
consume SO bushels of corn. Farm is 
badly seeded with wild turnip and Witch 
grass. io. l. s. 
Massachusetts. 
If you wish to produce milk at the 
least cost you should build a silo in¬ 
stead of buying a grinding mill, and 
put your whole corn crop in the silo. 
If you can raise more corn than enough 
to fill a silo of sufficient size you might 
grind the surplus and mix with home- 
.grown oats for horse and cow feed. 
With this method you could sell your 
Timothy hay, except what you required 
to feed to horses, as it never pays very 
well to feed Timothy hay to cows. It 
is a good plan to feed cows a little 
Red-top or clover hay at noon when 
they have silage and a good grain ration 
morning and evening. If, however, 
your conditions will not justify you in 
building a silo you should raise all the 
corn and oats you can and grind them 
together for cows and horses. The 
corncobs are worth 12 or 15 cents a 
hundred to feed, which is enough to 
pay for grinding or more. The grain 
ration for you* to use in connection 
with this will depend upon the cost and 
availability of the different feeds in 
your market. c. s. greene. 
CHANGING TO SUMMER DAIRY. 
I wish to change to Summer dairy. Cows 
freshen from July, 1908, to May, 1909. 
What would the effect be if I did not breed 
the cows (that calved from November, 
1908, to January 31) until next July or 
June? Would keeping them in milk for so 
long a time be detrimental to their future 
milking capacity? w. m. j. 
Vermont. 
Cows calving in November, 1908, and 
not bred again until June, 1909, would, 
if well fed, probably milk until Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1910, freshening again, in 
March, 1910. This would keep them 
milking continuously for 13 months. 
Of course, some individuals might dry 
up before January, 1910, and others 
might milk somewhat longer than that, 
but 13 months would be about what 
ordinary cows would average. We 
have often had cows in milk as long 
as that and never observed any dele¬ 
terious effect from it. I would not 
hesitate for an instant to change from 
a Winter to a Summer dairy if you 
think it to your advantage to do so. 
With two-year-old heifers I believe the 
long period of milking is rather a ben¬ 
efit than otherwise, for it develops the 
habit of persistent milking and at the 
same time gives the animal a better 
chance to grow. We had two cows that 
milked continuously for three years, 
failing to breed all that time, yet giving 
fair messes of milk for the whole period. 
c. s. M. 
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